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Cool. Sometimes they can be a pain.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rocket55
I was hoping it was going to start easily, as I was not looking forward to trying to bleed it under that cooler.Quote:
Originally Posted by nissannewby
So only the pump left then. The pump will absolutely transform it mate.
You have done well Rod. Your research and patience is certainly paying off.
Pump, flywheel and clutch to go, I'm hoping it makes a decent difference, i'd hate to do all this for a, meh, so so result.Quote:
Originally Posted by nissannewby
It then came time to fire this thing up, I've had the battery on charge the other day, so it's good to go. Double checked and tripple checked under the bonnet for tools, along the sides of the guards, on top of the grill, bull bar, everywhere. Then went back to the tools and put them all in the tray, none missing, great so time to hit the key. Before doing so I removed the plug on the fuel cut solenoid and then proceeded to crank it over, gave it 4 hits of about 4-5 seconds each to pump some oil up into the turbo. Reconnected the fuel cut solenoid, hit the starter and it burst into life almost instantly, and idled away so soothly and quiet, it's never been so smooth and quiet since I've owned it. I was much relieved.
I let it idle for a few minutes and scoured over it with my trusty work lamp looking for leaks, flapping bits, anything that shouldn't be there and to my discust noticed an oil leak on the oil feed fitting to the turbo where it comes from the block. So shut it down and went about fixing it. Well this fitting is a piece of piss to get at when there's nothing there, but after the turbo, intake pipe, battery, etc. goes in you can see it, but touching it is a challenge. Anyway, about an hour later, the fitting was out and reinstalled with a new copper washer behind it, test again and all good.
Went for a small drive, stopped about 1 km up the road and rechecked everything, all good. Noticed the pyro gauge was not working, get home and check the power supply, no power. Closed the door and a job for tommorrow, as by now it ws 1:30 in the morning.
Next morning, sus out the pyro, pull it all out and find a wire labled "pyro power supply" taped up under the dash not connected to anything. Guess that was me last time doing half a job. Anyway, used the opportunity to run an ignition power source into the cab and into a 4 way fuse block, so now I have 4 pre-made ignition sources. Wired it all up, tested Ok and went for another spin. Eventually the pyro starts working, driving around on a light throttle I see 150 - 250 deg.
Pulled up at a mates house for a beer and a quick photo.
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Given that I have not altered the fuel pump at all during this process, I wasn't expecting too much of a power increase. It does go better, a fair bit better, but it's not going to take your breath away. I expect it would be very different if you were to tune the pump to suit or better still when I put the new pump in it. Boost has increased from 12 to 16.5 psi, it revs so much freer and continues to rev past where it used to want to stop and do nothing, quite impressed to begin with. The induction noise is definitely there and with the windows down is loud, but with the windows up it's fine.
Here's a small vid of a gentle run through the gears 1st - 3rd on about 1/2 to 2/3 throttle towards the end of 3rd. Oh, it's uphill also.
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Well done mate good job.
Looking forward to getting all the bits to do mine, good job.
Thanks BigFish, it's definitely been a headache coordinating it all, especially when I have a deadline where I need the car working, one way or another. The pump goes in on Thur/Fri this week, so hugely looking forward to the weekend.
Feeling sad tonight, went downstairs to the beer fridge and looked across the garage over the roof of my missus' car only to see an empty space where my big girl should be sitting..... But then I think about picking it up tomorrow with a new pump. :-)
I will be watching here to see what you think mate.
Today's the big day!
Waiting to hear about the results.
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Ok, picked up the wagon from Bailey Diesel Group at Unanderra this afternoon. Big shout out and thanks to Matt and his guys for fitting me in and getting it going. Matt showed me through their common rail injector shop and seriously it looked like a Formula 1 factory, seriously clean and well laid out, these guys know what they're doing. I digress.
After a few calls back and forth to UFI the wagon got started. We ran into a bit of trouble with the cruise control throttle cable and presently this was unable to be attached to the UFI pump and will require some further thought and clever brackets.
I get down to BDG this after noon and the wagon is sitting on the dyno, but unfortunately we were unable to get any meaningful results as the clutch in my wagon is just not up to it, not even close. They did 1 initial run and it managed 192 rwhp at 2,500 rpm at 20 psi before the clutch let go. AFR's were a constant 19, didn't see any torque numbers. So it looks as though it's down on hp, but it's also 6 psi down and this was never adjusted, there was no point. So I need to get the new clutch in, up the boost and see where it ends up, but I suspect it will be low, hope I'm wrong.
How does it drive? It drives great! Makes effortless power, little puff of black then runs clean as a whistle. For those locals that know Mt Ousley I was able to comfortably run up there in 5th at 80km/hr, slow down to closer to 70 ish then just cruise back up to 80 odd still in 5th with the slightest movement of the pedal, gave it a little squeeze more and it was heading for 90 and then slipped the clutch. I then drove the rest of the hills in 4th on a light throttle to give the clutch an easier time. 100 odd km/hr on the freeway saw 6-8 psi and 250 deg EGT's. Biggest EGT's I saw mucking around in 5th up the mountain was 450.
Boost comes in with bugger all throttle so you get a nice smooth delivery. Up one of the little hills around home I give it a little run in 2nd, not much, changed to 3rd and lent on it a bit (not full throttle) it build boost and then started wheel spinning in a straight line (it was raining) that make me giggle a little. Close to a 3T wagon running near new 33" BFG A/T's on standard 3.9 gearing. This thing definitely has potential. Also noticed gear box roll over noise has dramatically reduced, go figure. It also has heaps more torque at idle, I can easily just let the clutch out in first without touching the throttle and it just walks away. Looking forward to getting it tuned up and going.
Peak power is normally at or beyond 3200rpm. So you still had quite a bit to go. 190 at 2500 would see you getting close the a 250hp peak.
Update from the weekend. Bit of a relief to have it running again, so decided to tackle a few other jobs that need sorting out. Started out by installing a couple of 8 B&S power supplies to the 12 pin plug for the caravan fridge and the Anderson plug for charging van batteries. These were run through relays and triggered by an ignition source so they are only active when the ignition is on.
Then I installed my Redarc Tow Pro trailer brake controller. I put it in the blank on the right hand side on the gauge light dimmer. Came up pretty good I think.
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Also installed the Brakesafe battery monitor, apparently you need on of these... Dearest bloody volt meter I've ever bought....
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So then on the Sunday I set about righting a pretty embarrassing wrong from the other week. Started off by removing the bonnet and placing it to the side, out of bloody sight!!
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Placed the "other" bonnet on and marked out the position of the intercoooler. Removed it and placed it on a couple of stands.
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Then set about cutting a new hole straight through the middle of it, this time in a more appropriate location and size.
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Turned it over and removed some of the bracing next to the hole to allow the cooler to seal up neatly on the bonnet.
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Put the template on the bonnet and set the back of the scoop 12mm from the back of the bonnet after receiving advice from Bob at Fairline, he's a super bloke. This means that only a couple of the bolt holes land in awkward locations. Drilled out all the holes, opened up those in the bracing with a step drill and then painted all the fresh edges. I'll sit the bonnet back on during the week or next weekend, haven't decided yet. It kinda looks pretty cool with a black bonnet, I'll get some pics after.
Better put the black bonnet photos here first :p
Haha, I'll see what it looks like. Will paint it white and then might wrap it in ricer carbon fibre :rolleyes:
Hey Rod. Can you get some good close'ish shots of the snorkel. Where you've cut into the guard. I'm in two minds wether to do the same as you or to go the other way. Where I don't cut the guard...
Cheers.
Just cut the guard, what could possibly go wrong ....
I'll get some pics tomorrow Mark. If I get home in time I'll try and get some pics in the day light, always better than a flash.
No rush mate. Whenever your walking past with a camera in ya hand.
Its not the cutting im concerned about.
Its the look of the large hole. I dont know if i like that or not.
You know you want to Just do it ive got a length of pipe here
if you need some 60 will do it
Yeah.... Nup. This is something i think ill leave to pro's.Quote:
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Does anyone actually do fitting of these snorkels ? Just curious for when and if I decide to go down this path. ?Quote:
Originally Posted by mudski
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Head up my way mate and I'll put it in for you, I've done 2 snorkles now and they turned out ok, but if you want a scoop, well, I'm only averaging 50% success on those ... :DQuote:
Originally Posted by mudski
Ok. Where do you live again. The offers there Eric. Lets go for a drive one weekend.
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God's country mate, just keep drive towards the sunshine and if you end up in Shitney you've gone too far :D
Needed to use the wagon tomorrow so I threw the bonnet and scoop back on tonight. I put one of those foot stools on the radiator support panel being careful not to squash anything to important, this allowed me with the help of an apprentice (aka my wife) to lift the bonnet into position. I could then release my apprentice thus keeping in favour with my apprentice and complete the bonnet install by myself. I used a piece of pool pipe to support the bonnet until I could get the struts back on.
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Dressed the bonnet with some windscreen washer nozzles, tubing, rubber stoppers and the weather strip, then set about bolting the scoop back on. Came up pretty good.
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Still not convinced on the black bonnet, but I'll see how I go with it over the next couple of weeks, it might grow on me.
While I was going I installed a set of LED front Parker globes I picked up a while ago and while I was under there I spotted an oil leak which was traced back to the front steering dampener. Seems the weld around the end of the dampener has split. Possibly due to the body of the shock hitting the bars and the eye getting yanked around a bit further, either way it's buggered and depositing oil on the front bars and diff. Time for a new one.
Am I better off keeping the eye to eye set up or going to a pin to pin arrangement?
Rod, don't let it grow on you, it looks awful!
Nothing nicer than an all-white Patrol. If I were you, I'd even colour code the bumper.
Wish mine was white..
To be honest I hate the look of the bonnet, it will be painted as soon as possible. It's not really a black either, it's just the colour new panels come it.
Yeah i agree. The later GUIV's and on do look good with colour coded bars.Quote:
Originally Posted by jff45
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Went for drive up the road this afternoon to get some dinner, on the way home I home I managed to blow an intercooler pipe off. I wasn't trying that hard, was probably somewhere around 14-16psi. Wholly hell didn't it go off with a bang, sounded like a bomb went off, also happened to occur right out the front of the local Police station :shock: :shock: As I cruised to a stop on the side of the road, I thought here we go, I was expecting a heap of cops to come out guns drawn. Hmm bit of a bummer and not a tool on board.
So give the lovely wife a call, explain what's happened tell her to come up and get the dinner to take home, also get her to grab the 1/4 drive socket set and a tin of silicon spray. A few minute later she turns up and takes dinner home, I put the pipe back on and checked the other clamps and a few of them were a bit loose. Anyway it drove better on the way home, blew less smoke and made less noise, so I'm guessing it must have been leaking a bit.
As a result I just bought a set of these off evil bay which will hopefully solve the problem long term.
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Masters sell the Tridon brand clamps like that..
Those T bolt clamps are good. Whats even better is the spring loaded T bolt clamps. They will hold the load on the clamp so it wont ever come undone.
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One of the final pieces of the puzzle went in yesterday. Pretty stoked about that. The flywheel arrived at my mechanics and they opened the box to find this:
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They guys were very impressed with what they found and took a heap of pics, commenting that it was the most impressive flywheel they had seen and appreciated the amount of work and machining that was involved in making it. Nice work and a big complement to Boosted6 and his suppliers.
So it was up on the hoist and out with the old
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And in with the new.
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To this they boltedd up a UFI clutch, replaced the rear main seal and also changed the 2 uni joints in the rear prop shaft.
They then commented on how nice the clutch felt straight out of the box, standard weight and feel and super smooth. To say the least, they were mighty impressed with the final setup. Looks like all the research has paid off.
It's off for a wheel alignment in the morning, then I'll change out my buggered steering damper, pump up the boost a bit and tidy up a few electrics.
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Hmm. Shiny!
Bet your excited.
Yep, good to have it back and be able to drive it without having to baby it.
So what the flywheel cost if you don't mind me asking? And who is it from?
PM sent...
Would you mind sending me the info too please?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rocket55
PM sent to you also :)Quote:
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